Pencil-holder.



No. 660,189. I Patentad octjzs, I900.

' r. HAYES & w. H. c. McKESSON.

PENCIL HOLDER.

(Application filed Sept. 24, 1900.)

(No Model.)

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK HAYS AND WILLIAM H. O. MOKESSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PENCIL-HOLDER SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 660,189, dated October 23, 1900.

Application filed February 24,1900. Serial No. 6,430. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it concern.-

Be it known that we, FRANK HAYS and WIL- LIAM H. O. MOKESSON, citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Pencil-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in pencil-holders; and it consists of a fiat piece of rubber adapted to be used on lead and slate pencils in the manner hereinafter specified.

The object of our invention is to prevent the pencil from dropping out of the pocket when a person is in a stooping position. We attain this object by our holder, which is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1 and 2 show the application of our pencil holder to the ordinary lead-pencil. Fig. 1 shows the holder deflected in one position and Fig. 2 in the other. Fig. 3 shows the flat piece of rubber as it is first formed, with -a small hole, five pointed projections, and a little slit through each projection. Fig. 4 shows the flat piece of rubber with doublepointed pieces of sheet metal pressed through the slits preparatory to being bent down. Fig. 5 shows the holder complete with metal tips. Fig. 6 shows the double-pointed piece of sheet metal as first stamped out. Fig. 7 shows Fig. 6 partly bent.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The holder A is made of rubber having metal tips and is first formed by being either stamped from vulcanized sheet rubber or molded and then vulcanized afterward and is preferably one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness. The pointed projections B comprise the entire projection from one of the angles D to the next and are preferably five in number, yet We do not confine our invention to this exact number, as we find we can use as few as three, but not exceeding seven. The small hole F is preferably made one-half the diameter of the pencil upon which the same is to be applied. The slits a are made through the pointed projections B when the piece of rubber is stamped or molded. The longest end of the double-pointed piece of sheet metal (shown in Fig. 7) being pressed through the slits a, to the angle E, as shown in Fig. 4, and bending these extending vertical points down tightly on and over the ends of the pointed projections B we have the complete pencilholder. It will be observed that the metal points 0 extend beyond the rubber points B.

We do not confine ourselves to the one manner of attaching metal points to the rubber shown in the accompanying drawings, but

broadly" claim as new the use of metal points on a rubber pencil-holder, the points extending beyond the rubber and also attached to same.

We are aware that prior to our invention pencil-holders have been made of sheet-rubber and also molded from unvulcanized rubber with prongs or projections; but among the principal points of improvement over them we claim the metal points or tips and the deflection of the holder A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The deflection here shown is due to the peculiar construction of theholder A, as we will proceed to illustrate by referring to Fig. 5, the holder here shown being formed so that the angles D are about one-eighth of an inch from the nearest point of the hole F and the hole F being about one-half the diameter of the pencil H. Now when the pencil H is pressed through the hole F the holder A assumes the shape as shown in Fig. 1, the deflected sides of the holder A standing at an angle to the unsharpened end of the pencil of about forty-five degrees. Referring still to Fig. 1, it will be found if the pointed projections B are pressed a little more than at a right angle over the pencil H, either by the force of the fingers or coming in contact with the top edges of the pocket, the elasticity of the rubber will cause the holder A to spring with some force and assume the shape as shown in Fig. 2. It willbe found if the angles D are not formed deep and near the hole F. the holder A will not spring in one position and then in another, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and thus fail to perform the function desired.

In use the holder A, as shown in Figs. 1

and 2, is near the unsharpened end of the pencil H, and being pressed into the pocket it assumes the shape as shown in Fig. 2, the metal tips G sticking in the cloth in the sides of the pocket, and this, together with the force A holder for pencils consistingof a fiat piece 10 given to it by the deflection at the angle of rubber formed with a hole in the center shown, causes the pencil to remain securely and pointed projections, which are provided in the pocket with no tendency whatever to with metal tips, substantially as described.

work out, as We find to be the case when rub- FRANK HAYS.

ber prongs or projections alone are used. I WILLIAM H. G. MOKESSON.

Having thus described our invention, what Witnesses:

we claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- B. MILLING,

ters Patent, is- JAMES JOHNSTON. 

